i read 12 books in February (one of them was 1,276 pages)

[@emilyreads5207]

I'm still working on Count of Monte Cristo. I have about 90 pages to go. And when I'm finished, I'm going to have a Monte Cristo sandwich.

[@A_r_i_._G_]

😂awesome

[@juliehughes1258]

Excellent.

[@Shysnapping]

Please join me in applauding Carolyn (and everyone else) who read The Count Of Monte Cristo. Viewers here know she’s wanted to read it for so long. Now it’s a question of how long till she decides to give it a re-read. Also, as a huge fan of Kafka, thank you for the Kafka and the Doll recommendation.

[@de_hobbyhoarder50]

I'm still reading Count of Mote Cristo. I'm only 500 pages in, but I'm loving every minute of it.

[@hope4565]

I finished reading the Count of Monte Cristo as well. It was a true masterpiece for sure!!!

[@rebeccaxo2232]

The count of monte cristo was genuinely soooo good!

[@slimphotog]

I'm glad you mentioned how kind Kafka was. In reading his work, I also find that he was funny and so creative. He had an unhappy relationship with his father, and his health was poor, but he was kind and compassionate to others in spite of his hardships.

[@megbern2416]

when i saw you were reading if beale street could talk i remembered that i had it on my shelf as well so i read along, it hurt but oh my love 🙏🩷 thank u for sharing 😊

[@CarolynMarieReads]

That’s so sweet! I felt the same way 🥹 Thank you for being here

[@365tage9]

You are so adorable, Carolyn. It's truly appreciable that you take the feedback from your admirers on YT. 😉Also, thanks for being there as many of us had hardly anyone around them that read books, so it sometimes increases loneliness. Thank you for helping to fend off that feeling a bit with your videos. Keep smiling and exploring more! 😘🥰

[@myronemmaturner]

Monte cristo was one of my favorite reads last year, i'm so glad you loved it!

[@ZombieEatsBooks]

I can't remember which year I read The Count of Monte Cristo, but I do still remember how happy I was when I finished it. I also loved it, but it is a DOOR STOP. : )

[@Emiliemooles]

Still reading The Count of Monte Cristo but loving it! Loving Fable and beginning Middlemarch. I love being able to annotate the e-book on Fable and see other members of the book club opinions and annotations as we go! Yay for finishing The Winners. I’ve not read the series but I want to now as you loved it so much. Seeing your joy when you speak about picture books is making me want to return to some of my favourites. I grew up in England so it is interesting hearing that Leon had not read the ones you read together as I’d not read them either. I’d be interested to see a video chatting about the picture books you both grew up with. I’d be curious to know how much crossover you had. Sending love to everyone! 💙

[@jackeasling3294]

Can't wait to read George Eliot's Middlemarch with you this March! :) I think you'll really love it, Carolyn, since you loved Tolstoy's Anna Karenina! I loved that too, and on the surface the two seem similar!: two psychologically and philosophically penetrating books centered around love and marriage but also about many other facets of the human condition! Anyway yeah, excited for our March Middlemarch march hehehe. And if you can finish so many books in 1 month I supposed you might finish all of Middlemarch in March too 😅 I'm afraid I'm not that quick tho, I prefer digesting on it (I'm just on the early chapters so far but already it's just-WOW) slowly and writing in a journal how it relates to my life experiences and seeing if Eliot’s psychological acumen could shed some light onto my own life, and chewing on her philosophical aphorisms she beautifully sprinkles about here and there.

[@ewelinahernon6556]

I'm on Chapter 20 and as I was reading it, I automatically started comparing it to Anna Karenina. I love it so much already. So many beautiful, powerful and at times even breathtaking passages. Amazing!

[@jackeasling3294]

@@ewelinahernon6556 Right?? I get the same experience that Lydgate has, many times while reading the book :) : "As he threw down his book, stretched his legs towards the embers in the grate, and clasped his hands at the back of his head, in that agreeable after-glow of excitement when thought lapses from examination of a specific object into a suffusive sense of its connexions with all the rest of our existence-seems, as it were, to throw itself on its back after vigorous swimming and float with the repose of unexhausted strength-Lydgate felt a triumphant delight in his studies, and something like pity for those less lucky men who [have not read Middlemarch.]" Hehehe

[@martinelanglois3158]

Wow! You had a great reading month! I wish you as much fun reading in March. 📚

[@chelleandpoppy6379]

I made it through the bar exam 🎉 and going into March I’m having the best reading month! Right now I’m reading The Eye of the World and The Years by Virginia Woolf! I’m excited for my Joyce portrait to get here and planning on taking him to Ireland with me!

[@lindawalker2451]

In February I read Daemon Copperhead, The Gathering, A Confederacy of Dunces, The Still Life and Fascism by Madeliene Albright. For March I have just started The Goldfinch. I love your channel. Thanks much.

[@pendragon2012]

Great job, Caroline! I only managed 8 but I'm keeping track to meet the goal. 🙂Keep up the good work! P.S. Where The Wild Things Are was my favorite growing up.

[@juliaomelchenko1132]

I finished Count of Monte Cristo too. I didn't even notice how many pages that was. It was such a fun read. Now I'm ten chapters into MIddlemarch. And absolutely loving it!

[@Shysnapping]

My February reading: The Red Lodge - H.R. Wakefield 2.5/5 The Doll - Daphne du Maurier 2.5/5 Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll 3/5 The Storm We Made - Vanessa Chan 3.5/5 The Old Nurse’s Story - Elizabeth Gaskell 3/5 The Gray Woman - Elizabeth Gaskell 4/5 Lois the Witch - Elizabeth Gaskell 4.5/5 The Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas 4/5 Exit, Pusued by the Bear - E.K. Johnstone 4.5/5 Eight Cousins - Louisa May Alcott 5/5 Rose in Bloom - Louisa May Alcott 5/5

[@paulaquilina1103]

Calvino’s Invisible Cities is in my top 20 best ever reads cheers Carolyn love your book reviews they are so informative

[@mithusharma2217]

I read one of your favorite book, Carolyn, ' The Little Prince' and I loved it. Though a children's book, it's has such deeper meaning.

[@nadia-jane]

I have been inspired by you to read some younger targeted novels, something I've not ever done as an adult! In february I read a few but a firm favourite was A Series of Unfortunate Events. Been enjoying listening to them as audiobooks, like a good old fashioned bedtime story 😇😇

[@maudhaugland5822]

I'm so glad you loved The Winners too! One of my favourites of last year, and the whole trilogy will have a special place in my heart forever ♥️ Also, I'm happy you enjoyed If Beale Street Could Talk! That's my favourite Baldwin so far, and I can’t wait to read more of his work soon

[@shaf1485h]

Only managed to read one book in February - Don Quixote. Most I've ever read in a month 8 books.

[@sherrirabinowitz4618]

I am actually reading Barbra Streisand's autobiography which is really a big book but worth it, it is fascinating and intimate. I am about 80% through it's 1056 pages. She tells every detail of her life including her movies. So, if there are some movies of hers you have not seen, there is full disclosure, she tells the whole movie, but if your a fan like me, you enjoy it. I also read a new author to me D E Stevenson, she wrote books in the 1930's, I read her most famous series Miss Buncle books. This is just pure fun, and a joy to read, extremely funny. I just got a copy of Don Quixote and I am waiting for my copy of The Count of Monte Cristo, so I am afraid I will be very late to both of those. I am all set for Middlemarch. I will start it today, I can't wait!

[@thebasedgodmax1163]

that's a really good achievement to read that many pages in just one book within a month, let alone reading 11 more!

[@Ozgipsy]

Good to see you Caroline. Enjoyed the video. 👍 Im looking forward to ordering one of your portraits this week. They’re remarkable.

[@davidharter8476]

in february i read: The Count of monte Christ ; True at First Light; Spartans; Frankenstein; The First Third

[@sammeadesreads]

Thanks so much for inspiring me to read The Count Of Monte Cristo! I agree that If Beale Street Could Talk is heartbreaking, and the film adaptation is great as well. Also, in reference to Where The Wild Things Are, and in particular the line "We'll eat you up - we love you so", I would recommend checking out the song "Breezeblocks" by the band Alt-J.

[@aniar_]

you finally read The Winners!!!!

[@CarolynMarieReads]

YES

[@iamrjdennis]

I still struggle to read 12 books in a whole year but I'm just here to support Carolyn 😂

[@reubensmart1757]

I've nearly finished a different James Baldwin book called Another Country - I'd never read anything by him before but it's just incredible ! Like, layered and tense and insightful. You've inspired me to read the ones you mentioned eventually :))

[@racheloftheprairie7722]

I love that you read The Count of Monte Cristo! I read it last year at the beginning of the year. It was an amazing experience. I want to reread it soon.

[@amolove24]

I haven’t finished a book in February (mainly because I was in Colombia visiting family and am currently reading three books 👀) but I did find the count of monte cristo in the thrift store and I’m so excited to read it this year

[@jessicab2409]

I have only read one so far lol and still working through Count of Monte Cristo but I am loving it! ❤❤ you’re so inspiring and love all of your videos. ❤❤❤

[@samaratuckey968]

I loved the count of monte cristo!

[@oueldjiei]

i read Giovanni´s Room thanks to you and i LOVED it. Looking forward to reading more from James Baldwin.

[@SevenUnwokenDreams]

I find that when a book is great and I know it is, but something just didn't hit, it usually means I read it at the wrong time in my life. This happened when I read the Bell Jar in 2019. I re-read it recently and practically annotated the entire novel. I was astonished at how little I got out of it the first time, and how much I got out of it the second time.

[@neshkavirdure8289]

🎇🙋‍♀️😊The Books I Read For February Are: The Giving Tree By Shel Silverstein, The Puppets of Spelhorn By Kate DiCamillo(Loved It!!!) Like Water For Chocolate By Laura Esquivel( Loved The Recipes!!!) And The Count of Monte Cristo( OH MY GOODNESS, Looved This Book, It is My New Favorite Classic,am Looking Forwars to The Discussion About It😊)❤️😊📚

[@WaterBearReads]

Hi Carolyn I loved this video! So happy to have come across your channel! i read The Count of Monte Cristo a while back but have been wondering if it is time for a reread. I thought it was so cute how you use that line from Where the Wild Things Are....I use it with my son! My favorite line is the very last "and it was still hot" (I find it profound)!☘

[@MrD5914]

Knew when it said 1,276 pages in the title, it was Monte Cristo lol

[@stxrdustttt]

Guysss! Carolyn opened a bookclub on Fable!! I am so excited!!

[@anothersoulintheuniverse]

I'm half way through The Count of Montecristo! I'm sooo behind!!! 😭😭😭

[@JohnSaxon-vw5vi]

Omg wow what a amazing reading month congratulations to you well done ❤❤❤

[@janebaily3758]

Thanks for the Kafka suggestion

[@mm34815]

I'm a slow reader, so I only read two books. They were: Everything is Illuminated by Jonathan Safran Foer, and The End of Loneliness by Benedict Wells. I am currently reading The Light in Hidden Places by Sharon Cameron. I would say I had a great reading month!

[@denisefreitas6727]

Great readings, Carolyn! I've read 4 books: Fathers and Sons, by Turgueniev, A girl returned, by Donatella Di Pietrantonio, In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower, by Proust, and Mutations, by Liv Ullmann.

[@janebaily3758]

Any suggestions as to how to read faster? I only managed to read 5 books in February.

[@janebaily3758]

@@bethmcmullan7686 Thanks. I NEEDED to hear that. It should be my own pace.

[@beelucy]

I just read bear town and it broke me 😭😭🩷

[@CarolynMarieReads]

🥲

[@bethanywhite7904]

I finally finished The Count of Monte Christo last year!

[@circleofleaves2676]

I just finished reading Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut, and I'm currently reading Landmarks by Robert Macfarlane, plus several other books.

[@cass465]

Your hair is so beautiful- please drop your hair routine.

[@Ninaofthe90s]

I'm rereading the Count of Monte Cristo at the moment, but I need this month to finish it. Which means sadly I won't be able to read Middlemarch with you. Monte Cristo has 1500 pages in the German translation 🥴🥴

[@dangordon324]

The lyrics to the song ‘breeze blocks’ by alt-J have heavy references to where the wild things are- it might like it!😊

[@barbaralemon4170]

I read If Beale Street Could Talk. Some of the story is so traumatic that I had to stop and take a day off before coming back to it. This book is a masterpiece.

[@romalibra_books]

I’m taking a break with Monte Cristo because Dantes is getting on my nerves 😅

[@iamyourmother4517]

if you want to read italian literature, definitely check out calvino, pavese, morante and as far as poetry is concerned there is genuinely so much you can start with

[@singaporeghostclub]

I read 0 this month! 😭

[@cussot]

There's a breathtaking moment in Shakespeare's A Winter's Tale when a statue also comes to life ..

[@zinaberger8211]

I read the count of monte cristo two summers ago and I love it and now I'm reading les miserable

[@adrienne4028]

I see you read a Dr. Seuss book. I love Dr. Seuss. I was a teacher for many years and the whole school celebrated Dr. Seuss‘s birthday- which is on March 2. Did your elementary school celebrate? 😊

[@AdamFishkin]

Congrats on getting through the magnum opus of Dumas.

[@aanntruongg]

I will never recover from The Winners :((

[@TashaKoss]

Does anyone know how to make books smell good? I got some second-hand books but unfortunately they smell of cigarettes.. I left it on my balcony to air and sprayed it with perfume. Maybe there are other ways to make the books smell at least neutral? Help!

[@dianaayt]

Meanwhile I binged 15 volumes of one piece and only read jonathan strange and mr norwell haha

[@jimsbooksreadingandstuff]

I've added James Baldwin to my want to read authors' list.

[@loulelou]

I genuinely believe The Count of Monte Cristo are laced with crack. So entertaining!

[@premadimauro2691]

Can you pls explain fable? I am not sure how to find you after I download the app. Pls elaborate on fable and how it works. Thanks

[@365tage9]

I read 2 :D

[@rebeccaxo2232]

The count of monte cristo was genuinely soooo good!